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Brian Cummings
Brian Cummings is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He… [cont]
The White Review
The White Review is a quarterly arts, culture and politics journal published… [cont]
George Craig
George Craig, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, is the… [cont]
Tariq Goddard
Tariq Goddard was born in London in 1975. He read Philosophy at… [cont]
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher has been writing an acclaimed blog as k-punk for some… [cont]
Interview with Rob Young
Rob Young is a former editor of the Wire magazine and contributes… [cont]
Interview with Lars Iyer, author of 'Spurious'
Lars Iyer lives and works in Newcastle, UK, where he teaches Philosophy.… [cont]
Paul Taylor
Paul A. Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Communications Theory at the… [cont]
Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley writes for numerous avenues, including the Guardian, New Statesman, New… [cont]
Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour was born (c 1977) among Protestants in Northern Ireland, but… [cont]
Paul Griffiths
Paul Griffiths, born in Bridgend, Wales, is a well-known writer on contemporary… [cont]
Lee Rourke
Lee Rourke is the author of Everyday and the forthcoming The Canal.… [cont]
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds is one of the finest writers on contemporary music, having… [cont]
Michael Otterman
Michael Otterman is an award-winning freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker. He was… [cont]
Dan Hind
Dan Hind has worked in publishing since 1998 and is currently editorial… [cont]
George Monbiot
George Monbiot is one of the worlds most influential radical thinkers. His… [cont]
Peter Robertson
Peter Robertson is Associate Editor of The Mad Hatters Review and was… [cont]
Rosalind Belben
Rosalind Belben was born in 1941 in Dorset, and she lives in… [cont]
Mark Sinclair
Mark Sinclair has studied philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of… [cont]
Peter Cole
Peter Cole is a poet and translator of Hebrew and Arabic poetry.… [cont]
Dylan Trigg
Dylan Trigg (1978- ), is a research student and tutor in philosophy… [cont]
Toby Butler
Toby Butler is the creator of Memoryscape, ‘sound walks’ that invite you… [cont]
David Graeber
David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist still, technically, employed as an… [cont]
Janet Todd
Janet Todd was born in Wales and grew up in Bermuda and… [cont]
Melinda Gebbie
Melinda Gebbies exquisite painted art has brought to comics a level of… [cont]
Alan Moore
Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in… [cont]
Joseph Koerner
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised there and in Vienna, Joseph Leo… [cont]
John Stubbs
At only 29, John Stubbs is one of our youngest literary biographers… [cont]
James Reidel
James Reidel is a poet, translator, and biographer. His next book, My… [cont]
Robert Kelly
The hugely prolific poet and writer Robert Kelly here, very kindly, answers… [cont]
Michael Syrotinski
Michael Syrotinski is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University… [cont]
Anne Stevenson
Anne Stevenson is a poet, critic and biographer (of Sylvia Plath, in Bitter… [cont]
Pierre Joris
Poet, translator and essayist Pierre Joris left Luxembourg at age nineteen and… [cont]
Lars Iyer
Lars Iyer is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle… [cont]
Keith Crome
Dr Keith Crome is a lecturer in philosophy in the Department of… [cont]
Leora Skolkin-Smith
Leora Skolkin-Smith was born in Manhattan in 1952 and spent her childhood… [cont]
Marek Kohn
Marek Kohn is a writer who lives in Brighton. His most recent… [cont]
Gabriel Josipovici
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940, of Jewish parents both… [cont]
David Newsom
David Newsom is an actor and photographer based out of Los Angeles.… [cont]
Chris Knight
Chris Knight is a professor of anthropology at the University of East… [cont]
Stewart Home
Stewart Home is the author of numerous books, including Defiant Pose, No Pity,… [cont]
James Williams
James Williams teaches philosophy at the University of Dundee. He has written… [cont]
Sinead Morrissey
Sinead Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and educated in… [cont]
Amanda Anderson
Amanda Anderson is Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins… [cont]
Peter Davidson
Peter Davidson is the Professor of Renaissance Studies at Aberdeen, where he… [cont]
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley is Professor of philosophy at the New School for Social… [cont]
Chad Post
Chad W. Post is the Associate Director for Dalkey Archive Press. He… [cont]
Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is… [cont]
Robert Gibson
Robert Gibson has published on Alain-Fourniers work for over half a century.… [cont]
Ken Worpole
Ken Worpole left school at 16 to work in civil engineering, but… [cont]
Andrew Merrifield
Born in Liverpool, England in 1960, Andy Merrifield has a PhD from… [cont]
Raymond Federman
Postmodern holocaust novelist, Raymond Federman, was born in France in 1928, Federman… [cont]
Charlotte Mandell
Charlotte Mandell is a skilled translator of poetry and philosophy - most… [cont]
Joseph Sherman
Joseph Sherman, the Woolf Corob Fellow in Yiddish Studies at the Faculty… [cont]
Michael Hofmann
Michael Hofmann is a poet, critic, translator and writer. Born in Freiburg… [cont]
Lisa Williams
Lisa Williams is the author of Letters to Virginia Woolf and also… [cont]
Julián Ríos
Julián Ríos is author of Monstruary, Loves That Bind, Poundemonium and the… [cont]
Dennis O'Driscoll
Dennis ODriscoll was born in Thurles, Co Tipperary in 1954, his seven… [cont]
Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt, whose latest book is The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient… [cont]
Craig Unger
Craig Ungers work is featured in Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/11. He appears… [cont]
Dai Vaughan
Dai Vaughan has been described by the Review of Contemporary Fiction as… [cont]
Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is the author of Mr Vogel. A former farm-worker, newspaper… [cont]
Kevin Jackson
Kevin Jackson, journalist and writer, author of Letters of Introduction and a wonderful… [cont]
Roy Hattersley
Roy Hattersley is the author of fifteen books including four books of… [cont]
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall is the Winner of the Commonwealth Writers First Book Award… [cont]
Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent in… [cont]
Moris Farhi
The celebrated Turkish writer Moris Farhi is the author of Children of… [cont]
Robert Chandler
The poet Robert Chandler is the translator of Pushkins highly vaunted miniature… [cont]
Neil Bennun
Neil Bennun was born in Devon in 1971 and lives in London.… [cont]
Trezza Azzopardi
Trezza Azzopardi, author of the Booker long-listed The Hiding Place and the… [cont]
Alain de Botton
Alain de Bottons career to date has been spent writing books that… [cont]
Hugh Aplin
Hugh Aplin studied Russian at the University of East Anglia and lived… [cont]
David Albahari
David Albahari is the author of Gotz and Meyer a truly great… [cont]
Marcus Rediker
Marcus Rediker is a historian, writer, teacher and activist. He is author… [cont]
Chris Paling
Chris Paling is the author of The Repentant Morning. Born in Derby… [cont]
Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray, the acclaimed biographer of Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold,… [cont]
Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert is the author The Seduction of Place. Joseph is Paul… [cont]
Mark Wastell
Much of Mark Wastells relationship with his chosen instrument is concentrated on… [cont]
David Mitchell
David Mitchells (1969 - ) first novel, Ghostwitten, was published by Sceptre… [cont]
Diane Middlebrook
Diane Middlebrook is the author of two highly praised, bestselling biographies, Suits… [cont]
Kona Macphee
Kona Macphee was born in London and grew up in Melbourne, Australia.… [cont]
Anne Sebba
Anne Sebba is a journalist, biographer and former foreign correspondent with Reuters.… [cont]
Neil McKenna
Neil McKenna is an award-winning journalist and writer who has written for… [cont]
Derek Attridge
Derek Attridge is the author of JM Coetzee and the Ethics of… [cont]

Editorials & Features

Wilde and Morris – Saving Socialism’s Soul
Is this Utopian A map of the world which does not include… [cont]
An Introduction to Oppressive Light: Poems by Robert Walser
Toparaphrase Musil’s famous aphorism regarding Reason, the path of RobertWalser’s poetry “is… [cont]
Rhetoric: a modest reading list
One of the greatest pleasures in writing my introduction to rhetoric,You Talkin… [cont]
A bibliography for The Faith of the Faithless
The Faith of the Faithless is a series of experiments in political… [cont]
Hans Blumenberg and His Myth Science Arkestra
I.Hans Blumenberg was one of the most searching, omnivorous scholars and philosophers… [cont]
C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid
Classicist A.T. Reyes describes the background to his C.S. Lewiss Lost Aeneid:… [cont]
Hazlitt the neglected
The tides of literary posterity crash in unpredictable ways, and the vagaries… [cont]
Notes on 'Everything Passes'
Although I know of Josipovici, and of his work, I haven’t, before… [cont]
False quantities: on Martin Amis’s hobbyhorse
What’s mostrevealing about Prospect’s recent interview with Martin Amis isn’t his opinion… [cont]
The Erotic Potential of Wives and Hedgehogs
The Erotic Potential of My Wife David Foenkinos (translated from French by… [cont]
Books of the Year 2008 symposium
It is Books of the Year time again! Like I do every… [cont]
Peter Vansittart
My novels have been appreciated, if not always enjoyed, more by critics… [cont]
The Kafka Myth
I’ve been repeatedly accused by Nicholas Murray of simply making up the… [cont]
Julio Cortázar
Preliminary note: When I set out to write this article, my plan… [cont]
A.B. Yehoshua
How does one forge an individual self when one exists in the… [cont]
Books of the Year 2007 symposium
Its Books of the Year time again! Ive asked a number of… [cont]
Blaise Cendrars
I am slightly shamed to admit that I only encountered Blaise Cendrars… [cont]
Books of the Year 2006 symposium
Its Books of the Year time again! Ive asked a number of… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 172
In Paris on Wednesday, 19 September 1956, Le Congrès des Ecrivains et… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 171
It is fifty years since the death of Bertolt Brecht, a writer… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 170
As PN Review marks its thirtieth birthday with this issue, we salute… [cont]
The Tomato Episode
He had been, for many years, intrusive, selfish, callous, controlling, petty, and… [cont]
Sea of Cold
Death loves a mystery. Death can’t get started. Death in high heels.… [cont]
Pair of Deuces
He held a pair of deuces, a king of diamonds, a four… [cont]
A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles
So can you predict the exact date on which the “pearly” rain… [cont]
Extracts from Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Psychological Background to Assist the Reader in Understanding Sheilas Character Development and… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 169
Last October, when Princeton University Press published Helen Vendler’s Invisible Listeners, about… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 168
When Michael Hamburger described T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound as ‘Americans at… [cont]
The Mass Media – Neutral, Honest, Psychopathic
Another helpful attitude is one of deep distrust. Since most of what… [cont]
Afterword to Heather Lewis's House Rules
In House Rules, Heather Lewis’s first novel, we feel the exquisite vulnerability… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 167
‘Speak, that I may see thee,’ Ben Jonson said. ‘Language most shows… [cont]
Books of the Year 2005 symposium
The ReadySteadyBook Books of the Year 2005 symposium comes about because of the generosity and… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 166
On 13 October two stars crossed. Lady Thatcher celebrated her eightieth birthday… [cont]
Raymond Federman: Cynic
true cynics are often the kindest people, for they see the hollowness… [cont]
Maya Angelou at the Cheltenham Literary Festival
Reader warning: this is not a balanced review or objective in any… [cont]
Brett Easton Ellis at the Cheltenham Literary Festival
For a man about to kill himself, Brett Easton Ellis looks disarmingly… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 165
I hate extremes, said John Donne, whose life consisted of them; I… [cont]
HP Lovecraft: Against the world, against life
For all the noise and hullabaloo his fiction has generated in person… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 160
Virginia Woolf makes her own a passage from Dr Johnsons Life of… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 161
Harold Bloom, writing in the Boston Review in 1998, after decades on… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 162
Death has been working overtime in American letters this last two months.… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 164
How far should the facts of a poets ethnic or cultural identity… [cont]
Editorial from PN Review 163
Robert Pinskys 2002 booklet Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, based… [cont]
A Town By The Sea - Chapter One
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in… [cont]
The work of Ann Quin
This is just a brief guide - still very, very much under… [cont]
Terror, Eros and Animal: The Fiction of Heather Lewis
I came into the world at ten o’clock at night, and I’ve… [cont]
The work of JM Coetzee
This is just a brief guide - still very, very much under… [cont]
Some Thoughts on the Work of Boris Vian
I am not one of those tyrannical characters, of which nature and… [cont]

Essays & Short Stories

House of Leaves, postmodernism and the administration of fear
In his recent piece on the administration of fear, MarkThwaite asks whether… [cont]
The Great Alexander
The first of these (Legends of Alexander the Great; 9781848857858) is a… [cont]
My Mother and Edith
Edith Wharton and my mother, Rachel Silberstein, could not have been further… [cont]
The painter virtually never depicts what happens...
Last February I went to Munich to stay with a friend and… [cont]
Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins and Metaphor: Fit, Fitter, Fittest
Richard Dawkins is often at pains to separate coherent thought from its… [cont]
Melville's Dreamtime
What I do is false – always.I once had a curious dream,… [cont]
After Henry: De-Mythologising Miller
Miller has been ill-served by both detractors and defenders. Erica Jongs well-intentioned… [cont]
The Vanguard of Anti-Imperialism
Richard Seymour (Lenins Tomb) reviews Gerald Hornes The End of Empires: African… [cont]
1984: Minitruths and Maxiluv
2003 marked the centenary of George Orwells birth, an anniversarypreluded by Christopher… [cont]
Gabriel Josipovici's Cousins
One of my recent Books of the Week was A Time to Speak Out… [cont]
Call Me Ismail: Kadare's Capers
The 2005 award of the first Man Booker International Prize to Ismail… [cont]
On Literary Suicides in General and David Foster Wallace’s Suicide in Particular
It appears that last Friday, on the 12th of September 2008, writer… [cont]
Stefan Themerson: Just Two Doorways to a Hall of many Doors
The first thing I tried was a book, of course. With the… [cont]
A Defence of the Book
At a recent conference I attended, an apocalyptically cheerful spokesman for electronic… [cont]
Jakov Lind
This is an edited and expanded version of the eulogy delivered by… [cont]
“The sea closes up, and so does the land”
Richard Ford -- The Frank Bascombe TrilogyI wanted to get an early… [cont]
On Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc was often known as the “most famous unknown writer in… [cont]
Piotr Rawicz and his novel
Piotr Rawicz wrote two books. On the strength of the first one,… [cont]
Elizabeth Bishop: Why Is She So Good?
I first fell under the spell of Elizabeth Bishop in 1962, when… [cont]
Robert Creeley: An Afterword to Sorrentino's Splendide-Hôtel
I’ve been trying to pay respects to this work since first reading… [cont]
Spellbound – the improbable story of English spelling
Why does anyone write a book in the first place Well, if… [cont]
The Act of Creation and Its Artifact
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder,… [cont]
The Flight of the Blackbird: Aboard John Berger's Motorbike
Blackbird singing in the dead of night,Take these broken wings and learn… [cont]
On John Burnside's Septuagesima
SeptuagesimaNombres. Estan sobre la patinade las cosas.-- Jorge GuillenI dream of the… [cont]
A profile of Jean Paulhan
Its difficult to overstate the importance of Jean Paulhans role in French… [cont]
Noam Chomsky: The New Galileo?
Language is peculiar. No other species has anything remotely like it. If… [cont]
Borges and the Plain Sense of Things
The name of Borges, among readers of modern literature, has always been… [cont]
Henry Sutton: Poet, Journalist and New Church Man
The influence of Emanuel Swedenborg on poets, other writers and artists of… [cont]
Introduction to Paulhan's The Flowers of Tarbes
Although he is largely unknown to an anglophone readership, Jean Paulhan was… [cont]
Menache Kadishman
One day before the recent suicide bombing in southern Tel Aviv, some… [cont]
That Merciful Surplus of Strength
The following essay is a reproduction of the opening of chapter 1Blanchots… [cont]
Experience IV - Silence: Aharon Appelfeld’s The Story of a Life and Tzili: The Story of a Life
OneI was ten years old and I lived in the forest.Aharon Appelfeld… [cont]
Experience III - Absalom's Hair: Gabriel Josipovici's In a Hotel Garden
At the heart of Josipovicis In a Hotel Garden is the attempt… [cont]
Experience I - Leaning Against the Wind: Bernhard's Gathering Evidence
Reading Gathering Evidence, Thomas Bernhards five volume autobiography, I remember a story… [cont]
Obsolescence
The red-shaded electrolier burned in the dining room, casting a cold, wintry… [cont]
Experience II - The Ninth Country: Peter Handke's Repetition
It begins with a spare and simple sentence in which so much… [cont]
A Note on Bergelson's Obsolescence
The story translated here first appeared in Yiddish in a volume of… [cont]
Gilbert Sorrentino
He sought by stress upon construction to hold the loose-strung mass off… [cont]
Christine Lavant
Midpoint in this astonishing short piece, “Memoirs from a Madhouse,” Christine Lavant… [cont]

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